Bilingual Education

Bilingual education programs help non-English speaking children succeed. Bilingual education programs can help children develop different ways of knowing and seeing the world. These programs will help children understand how big the world is and that other countries have differences from the one that they live in. These programs are important for children who move from another country to the United States. According to American Education, “people can be bicultural, switching from a holistic to a Western worldview. This is what many children from Confucian-based and other collectivist societies must learn when entering U.S. schools. They must learn to be bicultural” (Spring J., 2008, p. 157). When children that are immigrants make the transition from collectivist societies to the U.S. society it requires for the transition to be bicultural. I agree with Professor Stephen Krashen when he says, “good bilingual education programs provide background knowledge of subject matter and literacy in the child’s native language” (DelCampo, D.S., & DelCampo, R.L., 7th ed., pp. 264-265). I feel that bilingual education programs are the best way to educate non-English speaking students.